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ST - Kennebec River Bridge (1910)
Description
This bridge replaced an earlier Maine Central bridge at the same location, a four span Pratt through truss. One of the spans of the former wound up on a crossing of the Sheepscot River, near Whitefield on the Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway.Facts
- Overview
- Warren through truss with all verticals bridge on Maine Central Railroad
- Location
- Waterville, Kennebec County, Maine
- Status
- Open to traffic
- Builder
- - American Bridge Co. of New York
- Railroads
- - Guilford Rail System (GRS)
- Maine Central Railroad (MEC)
- Pan Am Railways (PAR)
- Springfield Terminal Railway (ST)
- Design
- 3 span Warren through truss with all verticals
1 span deck girder - Also called
- MEC - Kennebec River Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +44.54889, -69.62696 (decimal degrees)
44°32'56" N, 69°37'37" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 19/450199/4933030 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Waterville
- Inventory number
- BH 58932 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- November 6, 2019: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- January 4, 2015: New photos from Jack Schmidt
- June 26, 2014: New Street View added by Ralph Demars
- December 11, 2013: Photo imported by Brian bartlett
- December 5, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added photograph
- December 5, 2013: Added by K. A. Erickson
Related Bridges
- MEC - Kennebec River Bridge (Pre 1905) (Predecessor)
Sources
- K. A. Erickson
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
- Maine Central Kennebec River Bridge - Previous bridge c. 1900
- Luke
- Jack Schmidt - jjturtle [at] earthlink [dot] net
- Geoff Hubbs
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The Maine Central valuation map from 1916 that includes this bridge shows the original bridge with 4 truss spans, so the build date would have to be after that point as well.